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dormir

Meaning

  1. (intransitive) to sleep
  2. (reflexive) to fall asleep
  3. (reflexive) to sleep in
  4. (euphemistic) to die; to rest in death
  5. (transitive) to put to sleep (someone or something)
  6. (euphemistic) to anesthetize
  7. (euphemistic) to euthanize, to put down (mainly for pets but also people)

Frequency

A1
Hyphenated as
dor‧mir
Pronounced as (IPA)
/doɾˈmiɾ/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish dormir, from Latin dormīre, dormiō, from Proto-Italic *dormiō (“sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *drem- (“run, sleep”).

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